The city museum has participated with other renowned museums in this project such as the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, China National Silk Museum, Design Museum Denmark, Royal College of Art in London, Parsons School of Design, Museo Salvatore Ferragamo in Italy, Les Arts Decoratifs in France, Rijksmuseum in Netherlands, African Heritage House in Kenya, and the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada. But they could also help to study the prevalent trends of caste and class."We have three exhibitions put together — one explores how people from the Bombay Presidency dressed in the 19th century, the second is on the history and role of Mumbai in the international cotton trade, and the third is a rare book collection," says Puja Vaish, who led the team in the museum to curate the exhibition. Published by the India Office: London. There are also various embroideries and embellishments for the elites."The exhibition helps us understand how cosmopolitan and eclectic the city was during the 19th century.No.Medal - Exposition Universelle De MDCCCLXVII a Paris (reverse), copper alloy, 1867, ParisInterestingly, many of these (the book for example) are not exhibited in the museum due to the fragile state they’re in.Did you know that beetle wings were used to embroider textiles? Or that Mumbai (erstwhile Bombay) won a medal for its cotton at an exhibition in Paris in the year 1867?These are few of the fascinating bits of history that you could know at virtual exhibition. The same dhoti would be worn differently depending on the individual’s association with the society. Now it’s only on occasions that we find people wearing turbans.Cotton waiting to be ginned for export, print, Indian Pictorial Education, 1930 All photos: Dr Bhau Daji Lad MuseumWe Wear Culture was launched worldwide on June 8. Clothes could shed so much on our national history," she adds. "Google had sent us a special art cameras which took half an hour to capture each artefact," explains Puja. four way stretch fabric Obviously, we haven’t been able to encapsulate the entire long and troubled history," she adds. 1867.An exciting aspect of this largest online exhibition is that one can zoom into the minute details of the fabric of the artefacts. John Forbes Watson, published by India Office: London. 1860-67

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